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H.A. Krimm (USRA / NASA GSFC), J. Tueller, S.D. Barthelmy (NASA GSFC), T. Okajima (JHU / NASA GSFC), A. Furuzawa, Y. Ogasaka, R. Shibata, K. Tamura, Y. Tawara, K. Yamashita (Nagoya University), H. Kunieda (JAXA/ISAS), M. Rex (University of Pennsylvania)
The InFOC\muS hard X-ray telescope was flown successfully on a high altitude balloon launched from Fort Sumner, NM on Sep. 16-17, 2004. We made a 3500 second observation of Hercules X-1 and a 10000 second observation of Cygnus X-1. Both sources were detected. Flux values and spectral analysis will be presented for these sources, along with the methodology used to derive the results. In its current configuration, the InFOC\muS telescope has a single grazing incidence mirror with an 8-m focal length and 2040 fully multilayered reflectors. It has an effective area of 49 cm2 at 30 keV and half-power diameter of 2.61 arc minutes. The nominal energy bandpass for mirror and detector is 20-40 keV. The focal plane is a pixellated CdZnTe detector and an active anti-coincidence shield is used to reduce the background. The pointing system has been completely redesigned since its 2001 maiden flight.
This work was sponsored by NASA under the SR & T program.
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